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3232Harnessing the Power of IoT for a Better Connected Environmenthttp://smartrin.com/wp/blog/harnessing-the-power-of-iot-for-a-better-connected-environment/
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:26:55 +0000http://smartrin.com/wp/?p=341Read more about Harnessing the Power of IoT for a Better Connected Environment[...]]]>Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing the tech industry, offering it unprecedented opportunities to improve efficiencies and customer service with the help of connected sensors and smart devices. IoT is on the verge of becoming an inherent part of every industry, becoming interwoven in every aspect of our lives. However, this added utility comes with its own set of challenges with the security of mission-critical data and connectivity/compatibility of various protocols due to non availability of IoT standards ranking as two of the topmost challenges reported.

Coming to the fore, is Bangalore based Smartrin, the perfect platform with a complete process in place, creating a niche for themselves in the IoT domain with their customer friendly framework. The company’s major differentiation lies in its ‘Value driven connectivity’,” proudly affirms Ravi Tirumalaraju, Co-founder & Director, Smartrin. Primarily focusing on the connected domain and digital transformation, the engagement begins with a team of professionals understanding the pain points, post which the team recommends the suitable course based on the requirement/problem statement. Once the customers sanction their approval, the team begins with a quick Proof of Concept (PoC) to showcase the possibility before committing to the actual product development. Spreading a more extensive connectivity around the world, this novel approach ensures better clarity on the ROI in terms of productivity, profitability, performance, putting the customer at ease and enabling the organization to direct the saved resources elsewhere. “Though we are a year old company, we did a lot of PoCs across a broad range of verticals and now most of those PoCs are turning into real implementations,” reveals Ravi. He further adds how the company will play a key role and will largely contribute in ‘Connected India’ with devices and people connected ubiquitously.

Perfectly understanding the apprehensions businesses and consumers have towards the susceptibility of having their data breached, the company has put in place a rigorous security testing framework to ensure data privacy and security from the end node to cloud component. Smartrin firmly believes that IoT developers essentially need to focus on not just their own component but the entire system as a whole in order to avoid any last minute security challenges. Additionally, to completely eliminate any vulnerability one may have, the company conducts security risk assessments before developing any IoT solution which is adhered to as a general practice. “Smartrin focuses on ‘creating the right security culture’ while implementing solutions right from day one. We need to secure the device and network level as well for the safe operation of end-to-end IoT systems,” adds Ravi.

Smartrin is creating a niche for themselves in the IoT domain with their customer friendly framework

With offices based in Hyderabad, Bangalore and USA as well, Smartrin engineers products and proffers consulting for the connected world; mainly in Connected Agriculture, Smart Cities and Industrial Automation. Being the conduit between people and things, the company is currently working on one of the implementations to monitor the fleet of a construction company while simultaneously providing a real-time dashboard clubbed with analytics, geofence alerts and predictive alerts designed on AI-based data processing. Continually striving to stay abreast trending technologies, Smartrin aims to roll-out their generic solution framework for most of the verticals soon. In tandem with the company’s tagline “Ensures EveryThing Connected”, Smartrin is focusing on connecting more and more data points to provide meaningful insights.

]]>Smartrin recognised as Most Promising IoT Solution Provider by CIO Reviewhttp://smartrin.com/wp/blog/smartrin-recognised-as-most-promising-iot-solution-provider-by-cio-review/
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 04:43:31 +0000http://smartrin.com/wp/?p=312Read more about Smartrin recognised as Most Promising IoT Solution Provider by CIO Review[...]]]>We are thrilled CIO Review has recognised Smartrin as a Most Promising IoT Solution Provider,” said Ravi Tirumalaraju, Co-founder, Smartrin Technology Labs. A recognition that’s not only an honour; but drives us even farther to provide what we consider game-changing technology and services to our expanding customer base.

Being in the top 20 Most Promising IoT Providers is recognition we appreciate—and one that will enable us to continue to establish ourselves in the “Connected” industry. We’re building our services to make adopting digital and IoT services easy and painless.
At Smartrin, we always believe that ,Digital is in our DNA, so to be recognised in the CIO Review list of most promising IoT solution provider is a testament to the deep expertise, dedication and vision of the Smartrin team as a whole in Internet of Things (IoT) space.

]]>7 Technology Trends that will dominate in 2017http://smartrin.com/wp/blog/7-technology-trends-that-will-dominate-in-2017/
Sat, 31 Dec 2016 16:04:14 +0000http://smartrin.com/wp/?p=133Read more about 7 Technology Trends that will dominate in 2017[...]]]>

It’s time to look back all that was accomplished in 2016 in the technology world, and see what are all technologies would dominate in 2017. These predictions are purely based on our understanding and may not be full fledged.

Machine Learning

Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence(AI) is gaining greater public and business awareness. From self-driving cars to credit card fraud detection. The long-predicted benefits are becoming reality.

Cyber Security

Given the importance of Cyber security in the digital world and increasing digitization of payments,worldwide spending on cyber security is predicted to around $1 trillion for the 5 year period(2017-2021). After recent demonetisation in India, it’s evident that, there is a more focus on cyber threats in India due to increasing of digital payments.

Intelligence in EveryThing

EveryThing is getting connected and having greater intelligence. As per McKinsey, Internet of Things (IoT) will generate up to $11T in value to the global economy by 2025. Every physical is getting connected to the network, from sleeping bed to farm tractor to door locks. With Low power wide area network(LpWAN), connectivity even extends to miles.

VR and AR

Virtual Reality is the technology that replicates a real world.Augmented Reality(AR), combines computer graphics with real world images. VR/AR is $80B market by 2025 as per Goldman sachs. There is a huge opportunity for VR/AR in marketing, entertainment and gaming.

Blockchain

The Blockchain is becoming new database of internet.It is a public ledger where transactions are recorded and confirmed anonymously. It’s a record of events that is shared between many parties.It is also becoming as most widely adopted technology in the recent past.

Fog Computing

Fog computing(or Fogging) is a term created by Cisco. Fog computing solves latency problem comes with cloud computing by keeping the data as close to the ground rather than sending it back and forth through a central cloud.Recently “Open Fog” consortium founded by industry leaders to seek and create architecture/approach for “Fog”. Fog Computing is really useful in IoT applications where data needs to be processed and take necessary actions immediately instead of sending to central location.

Nanosensors

Internet of Nano Things(IoNT) is emerging quickly.Researchers have started shrinking sensors from millimeters or microns in size to the nanometer scale, small enough to circulate within living bodies and to mix directly into anything.

Insights matter. Businesses that use artificial intelligence (AI), big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to uncover new business insights “will steal $1.2 trillion per annum from their less informed peers by 2020.” So says Forrester in a new report, “Predictions 2017: Artificial Intelligence Will Drive The Insights Revolution.”

Across all businesses, there will be a greater than 300% increase in investment in artificial intelligence in 2017 compared with 2016. Through the use of cognitive interfaces into complex systems, advanced analytics, and machine learning technology, AI will provide business users access to powerful insights never before available to them. It will help, says Forrester, “drive faster business decisions in marketing, ecommerce, product management and other areas of the business by helping close the gap from insights to action.”

The combination of AI, Big data, and IoT technologies will enable businesses investing in them and implementing them successfully to overcome barriers to data access and to mining useful insights. In 2017 these technologies will increase business’ access to data, broaden the types of data that can be analyzed, and raise the level of sophistication of the resulting insight. As a result, Forrester predicts an acceleration in the trend towards democratization of data analysis. While in 2015 it found that only 51% of data and analytics decision-makers said that they were able to easily obtain data and analyze it without the help of technologist, Forrester expects this figure to rise to around 66% in 2017.

Big data technologies will mature and vendors will increasingly integrate them with their traditional analytics platforms which will facilitate their incorporation in existing analytics processes in a wide range of organizations. The use of a single architecture for big data convergence with agile and actionable insights will become more widespread.

The third set of technologies supporting insight-driven businesses, those associated with IoT, will also become integrated with more traditional analytics offerings and Forrester expects the number of digital analytics vendors offering IoT insights capabilities to double in 2017. This will encourage their customers to invest in networking more devices and exploring the data they produce. For example, Forrester has found that 67% of telecommunications decision-makers are considering or prioritizing developing IoT or M2M initiatives in 2017.

The increased investment in IoT will lead to new type of analytics which in turn will lead to new business insights. Currently, much of the data that is generated by edge devices such as mobile phones, wearables, or cars, goes unused as “immature data and analytics practices cause most firms to squander these insights opportunities,” says Forrester. In 2016, less than 50% of data and analytics decision-makers have adopted location analytics, but Forrester expects the adoption of location analytics will grow to over two-thirds of businesses by the end of 2017. The resulting new insights will enable firms to optimize their customers’ experiences as they engage in the physical world with products, services and support.

In general, Forrester sees encouraging signs that more companies are investing in initiatives to get rid of existing silos of customer knowledge so they can coordinate better and drive insights throughout the entire enterprise. Specifically, Forrester sees three such initiatives becoming prominent in 2017:

Organizations with Chief Data Officers (CDOs) will become the majority in 2017, up from a global average of 47% in 2016. But to become truly insights-driven, says Forrester, “firms must eventually assign data responsibilities to CIOs and CMOs, and even CEOs, in order to drive swift business action based on data driven insights.”

Customer data management projects will increase by 75%. In 2016, for the first time, 39% of organizations have embarked on a big data initiative to support cross-channel tracking and attribution, customer journey analytics, and better segmentation. And nearly one-third indicated plans to adopt big data technologies and solutions in the next twelve months.

Forrester expects to see a marked increase in the adoption of enterprise-wide insights-driven practices as firms digitally transform their business in 2017. Leading customer intelligence practices and strategies will become “the poster child for business transformation,” says Forrester.

Longer term, according to Forrester’s “The Top Emerging Technologies To Watch: 2017 To 2021,” Artificial intelligence-based services and applications will eventually change most industries and redistribute the workforce.

]]>Cities must have a digital master plan for successful ICT implementationhttp://smartrin.com/wp/blog/cities-must-have-a-digital-master-plan-for-successful-ict-implementation/
Wed, 23 Nov 2016 05:18:39 +0000http://smartrin.com/wp/?p=65Read more about Cities must have a digital master plan for successful ICT implementation[...]]]>

As a former Mayor of a US city aptly said, “The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.”

However, urbanization brings with it a set of associated challenges as well. Situation in India, which is all set to replace China as the most populous country by 2025, is no different. In response to a myriad of social, economic and demographic shifts happening in India and in alignment with the paradigm shift in focus to-wards cities happening globally, Government of India launched the 100 Smart Cities Mission in June 2015.

It is probably not a coincidence that today we are also in the middle of disruptions in the technology land-scape. Technology led innovations which are possible now can go a long way in resolving the challenges which are being faced by the resource constrained cities in their efforts to become the engines of future growth.

Information and communication technologies (ICT), the emergence and adoption of sensors, converging data standards, and improvements in computational methods and technologies leading to innovative opex based business models are combining to provide new possibilities for city management. The ability to integrate and analyze massive amounts of data leveraging and big data analytics can lead to very insightful findings and new ways of servicing the needs of the city. Increased smart phone penetrations and mobile broadband access are acting as catalysts in this transformation. Collaboration across city sectors is the key.

In light of the above, there are few suggested thoughts and ideas for consideration of the city leadership. Seeding in these ideas right at the concept stage itself would only make the transformation process more effective.

a) Selected cities have identified IT initiatives in their detailed plan either as a pan city smart solution or within measures proposed under area based development or both. It is very likely that there are several other IT initiatives which may have been undertaken at different points of time in the city or proposed to be undertaken each trying to address some or the other challenge. Interventions proposed in the Smart City plan may also have to be supplemented with several other interventions over a period of time to make it more holistic. A comprehensive way of approaching this would be to consider developing a digital master plan for the city which outlines the roadmap of all the technology led interventions the city would undertake for it to meet the current and anticipated challenges in the years ahead, and related infrastructure requirements.

b) Integration is the essence of a Smart City. For applications running in various departments/sectors of the city to be interoperable and deliver services seamlessly transcending the departmental boundaries, taking a city wide IT architecture view while designing the IT strategy of the city would be beneficial. It will go a long way in promoting interoperable functional building blocks which are at the foundation of a Smart City.

c) Seamless delivery of citizen centric services cutting across departmental boundaries in a city relies on ICT as a key enabler. Like any other technology based system, the Smart City technological and communication eco system including the network infrastructure are vulnerable to cyber-attacks which could seriously jeopardize and bring the system to a halt. Therefore, right from the design stage itself, cities should consider architecting solutions keeping in mind potential threats arising out of cyber-attacks. Cyber Security Model Framework for Smart Cities published my Ministry of Urban Development, may be considered while developing the solution architecture of the cities.

d) In order to respond to the technology related challenges in the most effective way, institutional strengthening of urban local bodies is a must. Today, within India and globally, there are technologies available to solve various urban governance challenges. What is required to be developed in the Urban Local Bodies and city level para-statal agencies is the capacity to absorb these technologies to make the proposed technology interventions really sustainable over the mid to long term horizon. Creating a position of CIO or CKO in the SPV, as the case may be, and building an organization under him, can signal the right intent. Globally, this has met with success and some of the more progressive cities in India seem to be thinking on similar lines. Building in-house capabilities is an imperative for the success of this transformation.

e) Procurement of ICT by government has evolved. Several rounds of discussions facilitated by NASSCOM, between the government and technology players on various aspects of technology procurement have led to a balanced procurement process where the risks are more equitably distributed. However, learnings from this evolution should be suitably leveraged by Smart City SPV’s for buying technology and SI services.

The above cited measures and learning sourced from successful smart city implementations across the globe on, governance and program management, financing models such as PPP, Baseline+Opex, issuance of Municipal bonds and others, leveraging open data, frugal innovation, process reforms within the urban local bodies etc. can potentially ensure a greater degree of success as cities embark on this transformational and ambitious journey to become a Smart City.

]]>The Internet of Things: Sizing up the opportunityhttp://smartrin.com/wp/blog/iot/
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:57:46 +0000http://smartrin.com/wp/?p=26Read more about The Internet of Things: Sizing up the opportunity[...]]]>This connectivity trend is now recognized as a source of growth for semiconductor players and their customers. Here we consider the opportunities and constraints for components manufacturers.

The semiconductor industry has been able to weather the fallout from the global financial crisis and realize several years of healthy growth—in part because of the widespread adoption of smartphones and tablets, which created demand for mobile and wireless applications. The industry’s average annual growth rate between 2010 and 2013 was about 5 percent. Could the same sort of growth result from widespread adoption of the Internet of Things? Many semiconductor players have been asking themselves just this question.

The Internet of Things refers to the networking of physical objects through the use of embedded sensors, actuators, and other devices that can collect or transmit information about the objects. The data amassed from these devices can then be analyzed to optimize products, services, and operations. Perhaps one of the earliest and best-known applications of such technology has been in the area of energy optimization: sensors deployed across the electricity grid can help utilities remotely monitor energy usage and adjust generation and distribution flows to account for peak times and downtimes. But applications are also being introduced in a number of other industries. Some insurance companies, for example, now offer plans that require drivers to install a sensor in their cars, allowing insurers to base premiums on actual driving behavior rather than projections. And physicians can use the information collected from wireless sensors in their patients’ homes to improve their management of chronic diseases. Through continuous monitoring rather than periodic testing, physicians could reduce their treatment costs by between 10 and 20 percent, according to McKinsey Global Institute research—billions of dollars could be saved in the care of congestive heart failure alone.

In each of these cases, the connected devices that transmit information across the relevant networks rely on innovations from semiconductor players—highly integrated microchip designs, for instance, and very low-power functions in certain applications. The semiconductor companies that can effectively deliver these and other innovations to original-equipment manufacturers, original-device manufacturers, and others that are building Internet of Things products and applications will play an important role in the development of the market. That market, in turn, may represent a significant growth opportunity for semiconductor players.

Indeed, semiconductor executives surveyed in June 2014 as part of our quarterly poll of the components-manufacturing market said the Internet of Things will be the most important source of growth for them over the next several years—more important, for example, than trends in wireless computing or big data. McKinsey Global Institute research supports that belief, estimating that the impact of the Internet of Things on the global economy might be as high as $6.2 trillion by 2025.1 At the same time, the corporate leaders polled admit they lack a clear perspective on the concrete business opportunities in the Internet of Things given the breadth of applications being developed, the potential markets affected—consumer, healthcare, and industrial segments, among others—and the fact that the trend is still nascent.